Nicole Lafond

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Nicole Lafond is a news writer for TPM based in New York City. She is also currently earning a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously worked as an education reporter at The News-Gazette in Champaign, Ill. Follow her on Twitter @Nicole_Lafond.

President Trump does not want to go to the summit with leaders of six other nations this weekend and he’s only looking forward to meeting with the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson, according to the Washington Post.

White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow contradicted President Trump on Thursday evening, suggesting the White House may propose some form of middle class tax cuts while Trump is campaigning for the 2020 reelection.

Tom Wright-Piersanti, a New York Times politics editor, on Thursday deleted and apologized for past “offensive” tweets he posted about Jewish people about a decade ago, and the newspaper is “reviewing next steps.”

The incident comes just about a week after the Times demoted a different editor based in Washington, D.C. for posting questionable tweets about people of color.

While President Trump seemed to pull his interest in purchasing Greenland out of thin air this week, he’s actually been privately talking about buying the semi-autonomous Danish region for more than a year, according to the New York Times.